TRUMP officials were told that coronavirus deaths "definitely will be high" if coronavirus lockdowns are lifted across the US.

In leaked audio obtained by Politico, officials warned that if COVID-19 lockdowns are eased, cases would increase in a matter of weeks, and ventilators could run out in early June as more severely ill patients enter hospitals.

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“The numbers of deaths definitely will be high,” Daniel Jernigan, director of the Centers for Disease Control’s influenza division, said at the start of a conference call on May 1.

Officials said if stay-at-home orders are lifted across the US, cases will begin to rise again.

Another official emphasized Jernigan's warning: “If, at the end of stay-at-home orders, you were to lift everything and go back to normal business, and not have any community mitigation, you would expect to see in the second week in May we begin to increase again in ventilator uses,” he said.

“Which means cases increase, and by early June, we surpass the number of ventilators we currently have.”

Several whistleblowers have claimed the White House has ignored warnings of coronavirus.

The Director of Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority said he was removed from his role in developing a coronavirus vaccine after he advised against hydroxychloroquine, the Malaria drug undergoing clinical trials as a COVID-19 treatment.

Hydroxychloroquine has been touted by President Donald Trump, but officials said there is not enough research to show how effective it may be.

The Vaccine expert said when he made the advisory he was met with "indifference which then developed into hostility" by leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).